New Application Status

[Phu Hung Nguyen]

> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 12:36:26 +0100
> From: Albert Astals Cid<aacid at kde.org>
> To: Ben Cooksley<bcooksley at kde.org>
> Cc:kde-devel at kde.org
> Subject: Re: New Application Status
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> El divendres, 6 de desembre del 2024, a les 19:27:32 (Hora estàndard del
> Centre d’Europa), Ben Cooksley va escriure:
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:37 AM Albert Astals Cid<aacid at kde.org>  wrote:
>>> El dijous, 5 de desembre del 2024, a les 13:57:26 (Hora estàndard del
>>> Centre
>>>
>>> d’Europa), Ingo Klöcker va escriure:
>>>> On Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2024 10:27:13 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>> Cooksley wrote:
>>>>> Trying to coming full circle on this here, but in summary sounds like
>>>>> there
>>>>> are a couple of things to change going forward:
>>>>>
>>>>> * For apps.kde.org, we should flag applications in accordance with
>>> their
>>>
>>>>> Lifecycle status in the metadata (ie. unmaintained and those yet to
>>> pass
>>>
>>>>> KDE Review should be flagged in some form or another)
>>>> Yes. For beta apps. I'd say for unmaintained apps there shouldn't be a
>>> page
>>>
>>>> on apps.kde.org. Given that there won't be build artifacts for
>>> unmaintained
>>>
>>>> apps (at least not for long) there is anyway no AppStream data for
>>> creating
>>>
>>>> such a page.
>>> In my opinion once a page exists it needs to exist forever.
>>>
>>> Imagine Okular goes unmaintained, I don't want the lots of pages pointing
>>> to
>>> https://apps.kde.org/okular/  to suddenly point to a 404
>>>
>>> I want to see a page that says "This is unmaintained" but still has the
>>> old
>>> contents.
>> Continuing to have pages for unmaintained applications sounds okay, subject
>> to appstream metadata being available (not a given as we source them from
>> CI artifacts right now).
>>
>> We probably wouldn't want to list unmaintained applications on say the
>> front page of apps.kde.org or the category lists though?
> Clearly not on the front page, probably not on category lists though (Maybe
> having their own "unmaintained category" in case people want to adopt them?)

We are already having a "Unmaintained" category page, 
https://apps.kde.org/categories/unmaintained/ or 
https://apps.kde.org/unmaintained/. This isn't linked to from the page 
of categories https://apps.kde.org/categories/, it's only linked to from 
pages of unmaintained apps, e.g. https://apps.kde.org/choqok/

For apps that don't have their artifacts and repos available anymore, we 
store their appdata and desktop files inside the repo 
https://invent.kde.org/websites/apps-kde-org/-/tree/master/appdata-extractor/appdata-unmaintained?ref_type=heads 

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